PLANTING THE FLOWEK BEDS 13 



Do not forget that even in a small garden you 

 may find considerable variety of soil, and to take 

 advantage of this is far better than making the 

 soil, even if you have the means of such an ex- 

 pensive proceeding. 



If you have to deal with a garden which is al- 

 ready made, as far as the placing and planting of 

 trees and shrubs are concerned, your first care 

 must be to put each new plant in the situation in 

 which it is most likely to thrive. 



We often find people who have got some new 

 plant putting it at once into some empty space 

 which they are anxious to fill, without considering 

 at all what the plant likes, and then they are very 

 much surprised to find the poor plant in a bad way, 

 when it was perhaps pining for shade, and had 

 been put into the hottest place in the garden. 

 Now such conduct as this is very much to be 

 avoided if you wish your garden to be a success, 

 for you may be sure that no success will be so 

 great as that of getting your plants to grow 

 happily, and only growing such things as you 

 can make really thrive in your own particular 

 garden. 



When there is a vacant space in your borders 



